Tayna Fogle | House version of voting bill needs to be passed

11:41 PM,
Feb. 25, 2014

Tayna Fogle

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Tayna Fogle
| Special to The Courier-Journal

The right to vote is a basic human right. But Kentucky's outdated constitution denies that basic right to almost a quarter-million of our citizens. Kentucky is one of only three states that take away a person's right to vote forever if he or she is convicted of a felony. Currently the only way to get those rights restored is to receive an individual pardon from the governor.

I should know. I happened to fall under two governors. My voting rights were restored by Gov. Paul Patton, but the paperwork missed one indictment number. So I had to go back through the process under Gov. Ernie Fletcher. By that ...